Ambode Increases Prize Money For Access/Lagos City Marathon

As the February 11, 2017 date for the Access Bank/ Lagos City Marathon draws near, the governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, has revealed that winners at the race are guaranteed payment of their cash, immediately they complete the race, according to Project Consultant Bukola Olopade.Also, Olopade revealed that all physically-challenged runners participating in the second edition of the race would get appearance fees.Olopade, the managing director of Nilayo Nigeria Limited, said the appearance fee for physically challenged runners would be paid by the race sponsor Access Bank, 7 Up, Bet Naija, the general manager of the race Yussuf Alli and his company Nilayo Nigeria Limited.We are grateful to the Governor of Lagos State, His Excellency, Akinwunmi Ambode, for making available the prize money for all categories of athletes before the race. All runners competing in this edition of the marathon will get their prize money, as soon as they cross the line and are presented with medals.He further revealed that only athletes whose samples would be collected by doping officers for tests would have no immediate access to their prize money until the results of the test are out.He urged Lagosians to emulate their counterparts in other parts of the world and come out in their thousands to support the runners.This edition is bigger and better but the main ingredient in any sporting event is the fans and I am appealing to Lagosians to emulate their counterparts in New York, Accra, London, Dubai and other parts of the world and come out en masse to cheer the runners, he pleaded.
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